STUDY OF LITERATURE
CULTIVATING AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY.
The importance of English literature in any school curriculum is stressed in the report of the Spens Committee on Secondary Education in Great Britain. “The reading of literature is not only an important side of the work in English,” states the report, “but with music and the arts, also plays its part in awakening and cultivating aesthetic sensibility. Literature is, of course, not the only subject of the curiculum in which the emotions are concerned. There is a strong emotional element in the sentiments that a pupil develops for any subject, but in the study of literature emotional training is more direct and more easily developed.” The committee states its belief that prescribed books do more to injure the growth of a budding sentiment for literature than to encourage it, and recommends that books should no longer be prescribed in the school certificate examination.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 7
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150STUDY OF LITERATURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 7
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